quarrel with his fate.
Andrei Iwanowitsch Moiseenko was born in Ukraine in 1926. At the age of 15, he was deported to Leipzig for forced labor – to the HASAG, Saxony's largest armaments factory. Initially put to work in production, he later moved to the spare parts warehouse. Suspected of being the leader of a group of young insurgents, he was sent to a Gestapo prison in Leipzig.
In May 1944, he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. After liberation in 1945, Andrei did not give up – not even when almost all of his family members died in the post-war years. Today he lives in Minsk, Belarus, self-sufficient, still rides his bicycle and meets every day and every person with curiosity – tested by suffering, but not embittered.
